BWARS has not yet produced an account for this species.

Read about recent records of this species in Britain here.

We plan to complete the process of producing accounts for all British and Irish species eventually. Meanwhile, on this page you can find at least a provisional distribution map, any images BWARS has procured for the species and a list of known synonyms (names previously applied to this species). The work of mapping aculeate Hymenoptera, plus describing their life histories, is the major activity that BWARS… Read more

Else & Edwards (in press) will cover this species. It has also been covered in several other works, including Banaszak & Romasenko (2001) and Amiet et al. (2004).

This bee strongly resembles Sphecodes geoffrellus (Kirby) and S. miniatus von Hagens and is sometimes best identified from the male genitalia. It has been recorded more frequently in the last two decades.

A rather small, predominantly red Nomada with yellow spots on the gastral tergites.

With a body length of 4–6 mm this is the smallest of the Nomada species found in the British Isles. The female is unusual in that the gastral tergites are devoid of yellow lateral markings of any kind. In Britain the species is unique in being entirely a cleptoparasite of small Lasioglossum species.

This cuckoo bee is easily confused in the field with its close relative Nomada fulvicornis Fabricius (see remarks under that species).